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  • Completely Abolish U.S. HIV Travel Ban

    Posted: September 5, 2008, 1:48 am by Kameelah
    TAKE ACTION! Completely Abolish U.S. HIV Travel Ban: Please write your Representative now! Dear Friend, Recently we celebrated the passage into law of H.R. 5501, the Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (PL 110-293), which reauthorized the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) to a [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Completely Abolish U.S. HIV Travel Ban", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/09/completely_abolish_us_hiv_travel_ban.html" });

  • Freebies

    Posted: June 8, 2008, 2:45 pm by Kameelah
    :: The HSRC (The Human Sciences Research Council) of South Africa is a South African based research agency and open access publisher. With the stated purpose of “support[ing] the social science research community through a strong commitment to ‘opening access to quality social science in Africa” has free PDF downloads of some of their [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Freebies", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/freebies.html" });

  • links for 2008-06-08

    Posted: June 8, 2008, 12:07 pm by Kameelah
    cross posted @ kameelahwrites. The 21-st century pencil test As attacks on foreigners intensified and spread across Johannesburg, mobs began pulling people out of shopping queues and forcing them to take “tests” to establish their nationality. In a practice that recalls the humiliating “tests” used by apartheid officials to classify coloureds as white or black, reports came in [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "links for 2008-06-08", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/06/links_for_2008-06-08.html" });

  • Zimbabwe: Black America must not be silent

    Posted: April 29, 2008, 6:04 am by Kameelah
    Zimbabwe: Black America must not be silent Bill Fletcher (2008-04-17) Much of Black America stopped discussing Zimbabwe after its liberation in 1980; at least, we stopped discussing it for a while. After years of regular coverage of the liberation war, details regarding Zimbabwe became harder to obtain as attention shifted to struggles in Mozambique, Namibia, Angola and [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Zimbabwe: Black America must not be silent", url: "http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/04/zimbabwe_black_america_must_not_be_silent.html" });

  • Someone Asked me if I was an Environmentalist

    Posted: November 2, 2007, 2:58 pm by Kameelah
    By accident. By accident, I am an environmentalist. Growing up financially challenged (read: poor) makes me very conscious of conserving resources and re-using things. This was not because as a child I cared so much about the future of the planet, but because if you ran the water too long then the bill would be [...]

  • Making Black Girls “Ladylike”

    Posted: August 24, 2007, 5:59 am by Kameelah
    This is an article I wrote that is also published over at Wiretap Magazine; Find more stuff @ Kameelahwrites ______ I have been convinced that many large public schools function like factory systems. You pop in one student and with the appropriate manipulations, the necessary conveyor belt rides and some pedagogical alchemy and you get the school [...]

  • Militating Against the Olympics of Oppression…

    Posted: August 7, 2007, 1:12 am by Kameelah
    also find me at: kameelahwrites __ No Snow Here linked me to an article by Audre Lorde entitled There Is No Hierarchy of Oppressions and was struck my one quote From my membership in all of these groups I have learned that oppression and the intolerance of difference come in all shapes and sexes and colors and sexualities; [...]

  • Safe terms, Euphemisms, Distracting Discursive Projects: “White Privilege,” What’s in a Name?

    Posted: August 5, 2007, 9:59 am by Kameelah
    also check me at kameelahwrites. —— Racialicious pointed me toward an awesome blog called the North Star which is “an online forum of discussion and debate maintained by black activist and justice-minded students at Yale University. By creating an easily-accessible online library of social and political commentaries, we strive to foster a community voice that calls for [...]

  • 15th Erase Racism Carnival

    Posted: July 30, 2007, 4:27 pm by Kameelah
    via RaceWire 15th Erase Racism Carnival! Read all about it! Welcome to the July Erase Racism Blog Carnival! Every month, a different blog gathers posts from throughout cyberspace that explore issues of racial justice. The goal is to enhance the discussion of race online and connect bloggers working hard to make that happen. We thank everyone who submitted [...]

  • Freire: Necrophilia, Schooling and Resistance

    Posted: July 30, 2007, 4:18 pm by Kameelah
    After reading Freire’s “The Banking System of Education,” all I have wanted to do is further connect the issues of violence, and the ritualistic killing through pedagogical approaches that seek to own, collect and render students as embalmed fixtures on the stage of oppressive classroom monologues. Freire writes: Because banking education begins with the false understanding [...]

  • via Kameelahwrites: Kliptown Folks are Asking: Where is my house?

    Posted: July 25, 2007, 4:31 pm by Kameelah
    visit me at: kameelahwrites If you had to guess the year of this South Africa photo, what would you guess? Any ideas? It is not 1980s Apartheid South Africa. It is 2007. Hat-tip to Jacque in Jozi for the recent happenings in Gauteng. Residents from several informal settlements in Kliptown took to the streets on Monday morning, barricading [...]

  • Pink Pistol-Packing Lesbian Gangs are Terrorizing the Nation

    Posted: July 11, 2007, 6:52 am by Kameelah
    Also, visit me at: kameelahwrites ____ I came home from class and did my usual blog checking and I came across to an interesting post entitled “Beware: Lesbian Gangs Terrorize Men with Pink Pistols” over at Grits & Eggs. Grits & Eggs is described as A forum for five exceptionally ordinary people: a Black woman who loves [...]

  • Serial Link Dispatch: Translating Blackness, Ventriloquizing the Dead, Blindspots, and Racism in Surround Sound

    Posted: July 11, 2007, 6:15 am by Kameelah
    Also, find me at kameelahwrites ____ via RaceWire: “Culture of Disrespect,” Ebony Magazine takes on bad words RaceWire asks: “So 32 pages on the n-word and its cousins, ho and bitch. Is it time to move on?” Maybe so…I wonder if Ebony would ever spend 32 pages on the Prison-Industrial-Complex or Hurricane Katrina. And, why is Ebony taking [...]

  • Meen Erhabe? Who’s the Terrorist?

    Posted: July 10, 2007, 7:15 am by Kameelah
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